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Rathduff co cork



Goolds Cross



Cork City Rly



Banteer Co Cork

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B124 at Youghal



B123 Lismore



020 Charleville

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Brian Boru Bridge Cork



same lifting

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C224 Clontarf Bridge Cork

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C209 Cork City Rly



Blarney

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Rathpeacon

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B106 Midelton




Can't find many Steam loco photos at all

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Gortnalee Junction and Castleisland Branch

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Millstreet co cork

101sean

Excellent pics, especially the Cork City Railway ones. Like the Goolds Cross one, about a mile from where I'm sitting now, used spend a bit of time when on holiday here in the 70s watching trains from the overbidge which overlooked the box.

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121s on the Mallow to Waterford line

fermoy



tallow rd



Lismore

Judgement Day

corktina wrote: »

Rathpeacon

Note the former GSRPS stock in the background.

corktina

yep, had to replace original post cos the photos didnt work, but I made vcommnet on being sorry to upset you....

roundymac

corktina wrote: »

B106 Midelton




Is that ballast they are loading? Those lorries are belong to Ellis's sand and gravel.

corktina

186 and 130 Killarney 1964

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121 class on the Cork turntable



121 class at Galway

Greenman

corktina wrote: »

C224 Clontarf Bridge Cork

Oh the memories, we used to go swimming in the baths by city hall in the early 70's. I remember putting a few coppers ie money on the line and getting it flattened.;)

Thanks a mill.:)

roundymac

Your dragging out memories now, the Eglintine Baths. Oh happy days.;)

Greenman

roundymac wrote: »

Your dragging out memories now, the Eglintine Baths. Oh happy days.;)

Mrs Campion.:)

Niles

Nice shots of the 121 on the turntable, I don't actually remember the 'Supertrain' livery but it's growing on me, has a nice retro feel to it.

Judgement Day wrote: »

Note the former GSRPS stock in the background.

Is that a brown and cream livery on the coach in the background? Do you know what type of carriage it is, JD? (I can't really tell from the size of the pic). I'm more of a carriage buff than a loco man.

Itssoeasy

Can anyone confirm or deny that the turntable in kent station on which that 121 is on is no longer there and has been removed and was moved to the new station in Midleton( the cleared area at the youghal end of the station) and the turntable in youghal is in north esk since the nineties.

Niles

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Can anyone confirm or deny that the turntable in kent station on which that 121 is on is no longer there and has been removed and was moved to the new station in Midleton( the cleared area at the youghal end of the station) and the turntable in youghal is in north esk since the nineties.

I believe Cork's turntable was removed to allow for the installation of a mkIV cleaning facility. I don't believe it's been moved to Midleton though, I thought it was moved (the actual table that is) to North Esk for storage.

I was on holidays in Youghal back in August 1998 and distinctly remember looking over the wall to see a weed-ridden turntable still in situ. Unless it was moved since then.

Judgement Day

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Can anyone confirm or deny that the turntable in kent station on which that 121 is on is no longer there and has been removed and was moved to the new station in Midleton( the cleared area at the youghal end of the station) and the turntable in youghal is in north esk since the nineties.

Why would the Cork turntable have gone to Midleton? As far as I know the Youghal one is still in situ but the pit has been filled in around it to prevent accidents.

Judgement Day

Niles wrote: »

Nice shots of the 121 on the turntable, I don't actually remember the 'Supertrain' livery but it's growing on me, has a nice retro feel to it.



Is that a brown and cream livery on the coach in the background? Do you know what type of carriage it is, JD? (I can't really tell from the size of the pic). I'm more of a carriage buff than a loco man.

The carriage was one of the 1372-1378 side-corridor series and the brown + cream livery was a an undercoat for a proposed corporate GSRPS colour scheme.

Itssoeasy

Judgement Day wrote: »

Why would the Cork turntable have gone to Midleton? As far as I know the Youghal one is still in situ but the pit has been filled in around it to prevent accidents.

Just to be clear i was only told thats what happened JD and I went to Midleton station to take pictures and walked as close to that cleared area and unless that turntable is invisible its not there. And ya I was in youghal two years ago and the railings and and lever were clearly visible and would they leave the railings there if they had removed the table ? IMO they wouldn't.

Judgement Day

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Just to be clear i was only told thats what happened JD and I went to Midleton station to take pictures and walked as close to that cleared area and unless that turntable is invisible its not there. And ya I was in youghal two years ago and the railings and and lever were clearly visible and would they leave the railings there if they had removed the table ? IMO they wouldn't.

Given that the railings are physically attached to the turntable, that would seem to confirm that it's still there. Incidentally, the turntable was heavily rebuilt in 1985 for the Cork 800 "Sea Breezes Express" (pictured below) and which included two restored GSRPS carriages (2409 and 1659). The turntable may have been used to turn a pw machine once since then.

Itssoeasy

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/710/youghaltrainstationaugu.png/

Youghal turntable 1988. A few new boards in the centre is hardly rebuilding it.

corktina

what are the people of Youghal (a dying seaside town) like?. They have the makings of a fine heritge railway still in situ and yet they arent kicking and screaming to get it back up and running!

dmcronin

I think the turntable's still down there, but the pit has been infilled. Probably too big a job to remove it.
As regards the good people of Youghal, I didn't hear any noise out of them when Midleton reopened. One would have expected a 'Full steam ahead for Youghal' cliche newspaper headline.
Perhaps it is a dying (or dead) seaside town.

Cookie_Monster

corktina wrote: »

C224 Clontarf Bridge Cork

he looks like he's in a cheesy musical, just having started to sing and about to leap into a dance routine to keep the traffic at bay :pac:

roundymac

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Can anyone confirm or deny that the turntable in kent station on which that 121 is on is no longer there and has been removed and was moved to the new station in Midleton( the cleared area at the youghal end of the station) and the turntable in youghal is in north esk since the nineties.

Last I saw of the Kent turntable, it was dumped around the back of the cement silo's. Did'nt look in great condition, suspect it was cut up and scrapped.:mad:
That would have been about 2007/22008.